County of Norfolk v. Zoning Board of Appeals

The judge did not err in allowing the defendant Schiffer’s motion for summary judgment and later dismissing the action against all the defendants, based upon the uncontested affidavit of the town clerk stating that only telephone notice from the plaintiff (an abutting landowner) expressing an intent to appeal the board’s decision was received by his office within the twenty-day period specified in G. L. c. 40A, § 17, first par., as amended by St. 1978, c. 478, § 32. Section 17 provides, in pertinent part, that “[a]ny person aggrieved by a decision of the board of appeals . . . may appeal ...…